All entries for Tuesday 24 November 2009

My spam count is still falling…

Follow-up to The spam keeps falling from Steve's blog

I don’t empty my gmail spam box. I rely on Google to delete stuff older than 30 days. That means the message count in there is a good way of keeping an eye on how much spam I’m being sent. A little over 12 months ago there were 1400 messages in my spam box. That’s about 47 a day. Now there are just under 1000, or 33 a day. Compared to September 2007 when I had over 6000 messages (198 a day) that’s a huge drop.

Are spam volumes falling generally, is this just a blip, or is it just me?

Steve Rumsby : 24 Nov 2009 10:40 |  Tags: Spam |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Gmail is speeding away from me…

Follow-up to Still catching up with gmail… from Steve's blog

It has been a while since I looked at my gmail stats. Two years ago I was using over 70% of the space allowed in a gmail account (then a little under 3GB), and although the storage allowance was increasing my usage of it was increasing more quickly. I was catching up.

Two years on, I’m down to 44% usage. I’ve got over a GB more stuff in there (3.2GB in total now) but the allowance has gone up to over 7GB. Gmail is pulling away again…

I guess storage is cheap, and Google now have a better idea of how its users use the storage allocation so they can afford to offer much more storage to people knowing that most won’t take advantage of it.

Steve Rumsby : 24 Nov 2009 10:34 |  Tags: Gmail |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem